I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
If you have no enemies, you have no character.
We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.
When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.
My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.
I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.
Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force. . . but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner. '
Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.
One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women
There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
. . . courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.
Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.
My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.
The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.